After many years of care and dedication to Parkwood, Dr. Grant has announced his Retirement as Medical Director. He will be retiring from this role as of September 27th. Please see the letter from Dr. Grant.
We invite you to extend your best wishes to Dr. Grant as you see him in the coming weeks.
Dr. Grant letter to residents families and staff
Saturday, September 25, 2021 and Sunday, September 26, 2021
Fairview Parkwood Seniors Communities invites you to support the journey to Walk the Kindness Way.
Walk the Kindness Way is an event that raises funds to support special initiatives at Fairview Parkwood Communities. Last year, the funds helped to cover costs associated with COVID-19 to benefit residents at Fairview and Parkwood.
The vision for the walk was sparked by Elaine Shantz, CEO, building on her passion for trekking, strengthening teams and building relationships.
Walk the Kindness Way is a 42 km trek – the equivalent of a marathon – that takes place over two days along the Walter Bean Grand River Trail. Participants begin the walk at Parkwood Seniors Community and complete the journey at Fairview Seniors Community.
There are two options for participating:
Volunteers are welcome along the route to support the participants and to welcome to their final destination.
Please join us in anyway you can: as a walker and fundraiser, a donor and/or a volunteer.
We look forward to welcoming you as together, we Walk the Kindness Way.
Written by Rev. Alan Cook, Director of Spiritual Care & Culture
It’s been quite a month in our nation’s history, hasn’t it? Canada Day is here again, but we are led to ask how “our home and native land” is doing. As we begin to come out of the pandemic lockdown, looking forward to ‘freedom’ and ‘returning to normal’, we’ve been reminded that our understandings of ‘freedom’ and ‘normal’ need to be revised a bit.
The recent discovery of the unmarked graves of 215 children at the Kamloops Residential School threw this part of our history into shocking relief at the end of May. Statues are being toppled, and so is our sense of what it means to be a normal Canadian.
Then the awful killing of a Muslim family in London, Ontario came as a terrible reminder of the challenges of living in a multicultural society. While we are still a society in which the ethnically White, European, and culturally-Christian peoples form the vast majority, we’re no longer allowed to assume any sense of superiority in the land. In fact, it’s almost the opposite – there’s a growing sense of shame about our heritage and the damage we’ve done. We might feel resentful of being put in that position, or even seek to deny it. But we don’t have to get stuck there…
In one of our weekly hymn sings in late June, I invited the group to reflect with me on these sad events. Then we held a two-minute silence. We remembered the dead children, the murdered Muslim family, and we simply felt the sadness together before God.
As a home rooted in the Christian faith and the Mennonite tradition, let us remember that one of the first things we do when we come before God is to acknowledge our sin and our need for forgiveness. That’s good news, isn’t it? That we don’t have to try to hide our mistakes, that we’re not stuck; that we’re a people who know how to say ‘sorry’, who are willing to change? AND that we have a God who is willing to forgive us, to heal and to help us. So, when we pray, “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done”, we are opening ourselves to the possibility of a new future and a better world
I wish you all a Happy, and a Blessed Canada Day!
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